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Anyone else watching this series on Wednesdays on NBC? It isn't bad though it has been a bit more "James Bond meets The Unit" than "The Millionaire", particularly episode 3 last week's episode in Paris.

Episodes 1 & 2 are being repeated on USA Monday night/Tuesday morning depending on time zone.

"In a hundred years there'll be a whole new set of people."
"Always poke the bears. They sleep too much for their own good."

As usual Phrelin, you and I are watching the same shows. I also enjoyed it, but I thought with all the money Rist has, he could have come up with a better way to track the younger sisiter in Moldava (or wherever) and the same with finding the safe house. Can't he buy some high-tech electronics stuff? And shouldn't he have a better bodyguard/go-to guy? Maybe an ex SF guy or something that could do more shady stuff to help him out like he needed in Burma or Paris? I also don't think the actors portraying his partner and the partner's wife have chemistry. He, on the other hand, has good chemistry with the partner's wife.

"But the freedom that they fought for, and the country grand they wrought for, is their monument today, and for aye." "This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave."

Hmm... I didn't really get the impression that the show was serial in that way. We've seen two or three episodes. We may watch a few more episodes in September, and maybe a few more in December.

I didn't say or imply that it was serial... I'm simply not going to start watching a new show until it has proven it will be around for at least a season. I'm not going to invest my time in a show that is canceled after 5 episodes whether it's serial or not.

I waited until Leverage had aired it's entire first season before I watched a single episode. I waited until I knew the last 2 episodes of Harper's Island were going to air before I started watching it. I'll be waiting for Dark Blue to finish this season before I watch a single episode, and so on...

The only TV Series I will start watching from the beginning are shows on Showtime or HBO because I know they won't cancel halfway thru the season...

Okay, I just found that interesting. For me, I'll watch anything, even if it is just one episode, if it isn't serial (i.e., doesn't leave the viewers hanging), and is entertaining. If there are more episodes, that's good too.

Thank you hulu.com. I missed the first four episodes of this show and it now has a SL set up. Good show.

A veteran - whether active duty, retired, national guard or reserve - is someone who, at one point in his life, wrote a blank check made payable to "The United States of America", for an amount of "up to and including my life." That is honor, and there are way too many people in this country who no longer understand it. -- Author Unknown

"But the freedom that they fought for, and the country grand they wrought for, is their monument today, and for aye." "This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave."

I just did not like the naivete of the main character. He seemed to think he and his money (by themselves) could solve the world's problems. And his way was always the right way. The best episode was the one with the former leader of Burma (Myanmar) because she would not answer his question about which was better for her people. And he had to really think.

I also take personal offense to the numerous shows that portray veterans as so screwed up that they commit crimes. I have not seen one incident of that in real life. The young Marine committing ID theft and everything he did and justifying with his fear of deployment and the loss of his brother? BS. Every Marine I know would have turned the wallet in immediately.

There are so many possilities for using veterans in storylines that don't have to involve them as cowards or messed up psychos, but I have yet to see one.

"But the freedom that they fought for, and the country grand they wrought for, is their monument today, and for aye." "This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave."

I just did not like the naivete of the main character. He seemed to think he and his money (by themselves) could solve the world's problems. And his way was always the right way. The best episode was the one with the former leader of Burma (Myanmar) because she would not answer his question about which was better for her people. And he had to really think.

I also take personal offense to the numerous shows that portray veterans as so screwed up that they commit crimes. I have not seen one incident of that in real life. The young Marine committing ID theft and everything he did and justifying with his fear of deployment and the loss of his brother? BS. Every Marine I know would have turned the wallet in immediately.

There are so many possilities for using veterans in storylines that don't have to involve them as cowards or messed up psychos, but I have yet to see one.

Well, I was uncomfortable with that one until the end when

Spoiler

his punishment was not to be deployed but guard duty.

There are vets who do have psych problems wandering amidst the adventurous kids thumbing there way up and down Highway 101, something I'm also uncomfortable with. Though apparently I'm not uncomfortable enough to do anything for them, I'm ashamed to admit. My mother's church in the Salinas Valley does try to help them.

"In a hundred years there'll be a whole new set of people."
"Always poke the bears. They sleep too much for their own good."

What's the alternative? If you'd be watching The Listener instead, then don't delete: Watch The Philanthropist.

I was going to probably watch this or Dark Blue. So far, I'm liking the Philanthropists chances. Either one, I'd watch late at night while surfing the internet at the same time, so the third alternative would be SportCenter or Poker Shows or Letterman or American Chopper reruns.